“Teina Pora will receive an extra $988,099 as an inflation adjustment, bringing the total compensation package to $3,509,048.42. Additionally, Mr Pora will receive $45,000 in costs from his successful judicial review of the last National Government’s refusal to inflation adjust”.

“Teina Pora was the victim of one of New Zealand’s worst miscarriages of justice. He was robbed of more than two decades of his life, languishing in prison for crimes he did not commit. These were years when Mr Pora could have been working to build his future and his family.”

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Helga

Seriously? $3.5m for a false confession and making up lies?
Never in his wildest dreams would Teina at age 20 believe one day he could ever have that sort of money. It’s not compensation it’s unjust enrichment.

duperez

There might be a novel there – a 20 year old lying in bed and having a wild dream that many years down the track he could be given a $3.5 million “enrichment.” Then to planning how it could all happen, would happen and making it happen.

The most fascinating chapters would be the ones dealing with the reactions at the end, especially the “Big deal you caused it yourself, you shouldn’t get a cent” responses.

That’s not the way movies go…ask poor old Joe. He thought he would ride on a charger through Hollywood when his boy was acquitted. Didn’t happen. Pora will always be a chump, a rich one, but a chump nonetheless

Blazer

the underlying problem is that any police officer would have realised that Pora was not the perp.He could not even point out the house where the murder occurred.Reflects badly on the detectives involved.

patupaiarehe

Regardless of how useless the police were, he still confessed. IMHO he deserves nothing. He is basically being paid several million dollars of our money, for being a thick wannabe gangster. All is not lost though. I suspect that a large portion of the money will be ‘reclawed’ via excise tax, on all the piss & smokes he will buy for himself & his ‘mates’…

Gezza

Covered on 1ewes at 6 tonite. His lawyers set thing up for him so that his compensation money is being managed by a trust, to ensure it produces a steady ongoing income and doesn’t just get blown on piss and smokes for him and his mates. My condolences to you and patu. I feel for you both. Deeply. For your humanity especially.

patupaiarehe

Spare me your feigned sympathy G. It is common practice in gangs, for prospects to ‘take the rap’ for senior members crimes, in order to ‘earn their stripes’. They do an easy ‘lag’, as other members of the gang look after them in prison. Do you seriously think it is OK to reward this behaviour, with the money that I & every other taxpayer work hard for?

patupaiarehe

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phantom snowflake

Hey Patu. Absolutely, the practice you’ve outlined happens. However, in this case, it’s pretty well documented that the gang affiliations of Teina Pora (Mongrel Mob Notorious) and Malcolm Rewa (Highway 61) make it extremely unlikely that they would have worked together. Here’s (alleged) gang expert Jarrod Gilbert on the subject:

Gezza

Snowy’s got some food for thought there patu – maybe?
Other than that, hard to know what to say really. NZFirst went with Labour. Labour Minister had a different view of the matter than maybe a National one would’ve. Just how it is. Gotta take the rough with the smooth with Winnie.

patupaiarehe

An innocent semi-retarded man, who confessed to a crime that he didn’t commit. Who is now being paid millions of taxpayer dollars, due to his own stupid mistake. And yet the IRD wonder why tradies do ‘cashies’. I do ‘cashies’, because Teina Pora makes me resent paying tax. And I don’t lose a wink of sleep over it…

Gezza

Well, if we can just put the issue of your now having another a handy reason for tax evasion to one for side for the moment, isn’t the issue re:

An innocent semi-retarded man, who confessed to a crime that he didn’t commit. Who is now being paid millions of taxpayer dollars, due to his own stupid mistake.

That when he did finally fess up and say look sorry it wasn’t me, and was by now pretty feckin obvious it couldn’t have been, nobody listened & so from that point on his earning power increased considerably?

patupaiarehe

I was almost right on the last one. I’m good for a ‘hundy’ on this one G. And I don’t bet real amounts, on anything I am uncertain of. This thread is getting a bit long, so best we just agree to disagree.

patupaiarehe

I know it seems like Teina Pora won lotto this week with the $2.52 million compensation payout – but he’s been royally shafted and short-changed. Again.

He ‘shafted’ himself! He confessed FFS!
I am thoroughly sick of a FAS affected retard, who confessed to something he didn’t do, being paraded about in the media as a victim of injustice. I hope he uses his unearned wealth to develop a drug habit, and dies of an overdose. The sooner the better. Children are going to school hungry in NZ, while a retard who has no hope of contributing anything useful to society, is set up for life.

Gezza

Can’t see that either the Pora compensation or any Pike River entry decision would change the political landscape much. Plenty of people across the political spectrum hold views on whether either should be done. They don’t seem to be issues on which people’s attitudes are decided by their party affiliations.

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phantom snowflake

People far more expert than me, and possibly even you, have diagnosed him with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. That he can string some words together on TV doesn’t mean he’s intellectually OK. That is illustrated pretty well in the transcript of the article above.

Pickled Possum

“These were years when Mr Pora could have been working to build his future and his family.”

If he was as vulnerable, gullible as reported, do you think his life could have been better ‘on the outside’. I don’t think so. He may have been into lots of bad life style choices that may have seen him doing more jail time and being a real threat to society.

False confessions under police intimidation or coercion are while rare in NZ they are a reality.
The groups most likely to confess during police interviews are juveniles, people with intellectual disability, and those with mental illness.
I am sure a young Teina Pora would fit snugly under one of these.

If Teina is going to get millions for serving 20 years jail time, shouldn’t he at lest pay towards some board for that lag. No seriously how much did the man pay towards his up-keep?
So free board and food for 20 years plus a big pay out.

I am pleased to see he has allowed trusted trustees to over-see his millions.

Corky

”If he was as vulnerable, gullible as reported, do you think his life could have been better ‘on the outside’. I don’t think so.”

Sad, but true. It can categorically be stated: prison ultimately gave Teina a lifestyle he, and most New Zealanders can only dream of.

Better still, any hangers on, or new whanau members who just found out they are related, have no chance of getting their hands on the mother load. The best they can hope for is $20 for a feed from Teinas allowance.

Gezza

Just a small thing – and please don’t take this the wrong way, meant only in a spirit of a certain amount of possibly misplaced temporary affection, & helpfulness – the correct phrase is “mother lode” & generally refers I believe to finding the main vein in a gold mine.

Gezza

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